History Manga / TheRecordOfAFallenVampire

* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler:Strauss and Adelheid are able to destroy the aliens and saved the Earth. But Adelheid sacrifices herself to terraform the moon so the Dhampires can have a home of their own. Strauss and Kayuki finally have their duel where she finally kills him, ending the Curse of the Black Swan that's been slowly killing her, freeing Strauss's wife and daughter's souls, and freeing Strauss long life torment, so he can finally be reunited with his family in the afterlife and leave the world to his friends, allies, and adopted daughters.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Strangely enough, the only character with odd haircolors are Strauss (blue) and Stella and two of the Black Swans (pink) [[spoiler: and that similarity is not a coincidence]].

* ActionGirl: Bridget, Lety, Yuki, and Kaiyuki
* ArrangedMarriage: Akabara and Adelheid.

* TheChessMaster: Akabara, Bridget, and GM

* CostumePorn: in spades
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Akabara and Adelheid vs the aliens natch.]]

* {{Dhampyr}}: Akabara is hunted by these.

* FourStarBadass: Strauss and Bridget.

* GottaCatchThemAll / WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The giant crosses, one of which is said to be marking Queen Adelheid's grave aren't symbolic but are actually [[spoiler: a giant array that collectively seal her in.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Akabara wants peace so much that he's willing to take on the hate of humans and dhampyrs onto himself and Adelheid wants to make up for not preventing Stella's death, so they're both going to fight the Big Moura.]]

* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The Fio. At least they're polite about it.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Saberhagen killing her daughter Stella]]

* LadyOfWar: Bridget. She was even a general in the Kingdom of Night.

* LikesOlderWomen: Morishima, if his interactions with Bridget are anything to go by.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Lety

* TheOjou: Kaiyuki, the 50th Black Swan.
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: In the end, GM.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Specifically, they are [[spoiler: organisms from space who, during their evolution, took on enough of humans' genetic information to resemble them and reproduce with them but are still a different species. The need for blood was eventually bred out too.]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Adelheid and her power, the Moonlight of Corrosion. Strauss and Black Swan as well.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Akabara and Adelheid.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:The black swans of Stella. Kinda.]]
* RuleOfCool: Why GM bothers to decorates his mask.
* SealedEvilInACan: Queen Adelheid [[spoiler: who is revealed to be SealedGoodInACan.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS
* SuperPoweredEvilSide / UnstoppableRage: Adelheid's "Moonlight Corrosion".

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Yuki and Kaiyuki, the 49th and 50th Black Swans, respectively.
** Bridget and Adelheid, to some extent.
* TheUnreveal: We never do see GM's face.
* VampireMonarch: Both a queen (Adelheid) and a king (Akabara).
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: A summation of the responses to the existence and intentions of the [[spoiler: aliens]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Open your eyes, Stella!"]]

* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: Akabara and Adelheid.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Reincarnation}}: The black swans of Stella. Kinda.]]

* [[spoiler:BitterSweetEnding: Strauss and Adelheid are able to destroy the aliens and saved the Earth. But Adelheid sacrifices herself to terraform the moon so the Dhampires can have a home of their own. Strauss and Kayuki finally have their duel where she finally kills him, ending the Curse of the Black Swan that's been slowly killing her, freeing Strauss's wife and daughter's souls, and freeing Strauss long life torment, so he can finally be reunited with his family in the afterlife and leave the world to his friends, allies, and adopted daughters.]]
* [[spoiler: BookEnds: The manga begins and ends with Akabara fighting against the black swan, with the difference being the end result.]]

* CentralTheme: '''Power Corrupts''': This is a major theme in perhaps the most roundabout way imaginable. It isn't Akabara who's corrupted by his godlike powers. He's an insanely nice, unbelievably benevolent soul who never showed even the slightest inclination of using his powers for anything but the good of his people and a determination ''not'' to do so at the expense of anyone else. Instead, it's the people around him, particularly his enemies, who are corrupted by their overwhelming fear of Akabara's power, prompting them to more and more horrific extremes in an effort to bring him down, culminating in [[spoiler: Saberhagen's murder of Stella and her unborn child for the sake of creating a weapon specifically designed to kill Akabara,]]

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: When they first meet, Akabara tells Letty a story about the origins of vampires. [[spoiler: He also tells her that he could fly to the moon.]] This turns out to be more important than you might expect.

* Flashback: There are a lot of these to a thousand years ago, each revealing more to the audiences and in several cases, completely changing the meaning of the events in the manga.

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* {{Expy}}: GM is very reminiscent of Kiyotaka from Shirodaira's previous series, {{Spiral}}... just replace the mask with a furry costume and add more quirks.

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* BrokenAesop: One of the morals seems to be that there is no such thing as complete evil and that everyone does something for an understandable reason, yet the reasoning behind the [[spoiler: aliens']] actions is never explored leaving them as simply invaders.

* [[spoiler: BookEnds: The manga begins and ends with Akabara fighting against the black swan with the difference being the end result.]]

* [[spoiler:BitterSweetEnding: Strauss and Adelheid are able to destroy the aliens and saved the Earth. But Adelheid sacrifice herself to terraform the moon so the Dhampires can have a home of their own. Strauss and Kayuki finally have their duel where she finally kills him, ending the Curse of the Black Swan that's been slowly killing her and freeing Strauss's wife and daughter souls and freeing Strauss long life torment where he can finally be reunited with his family in the afterlife and leave the world to his friends, allies and adopted daughters.]]

* SwordOfDamocles: The [[spoiler: Fio aliens]] act as these encouraging the factions to work together although there are still plenty of gambits going on although there were partially aware of this and took some token measures to defy the trope. [[spoiler: Akabara also acted as one of these for the past 100 years letting himself be known as an all powerful enemy to both dhampirs and humans in order to unite them.]]

* HotDad: Akabara, with Lety [[spoiler: and Bridget]].

A millennium ago, the vampire queen Adelheid nearly destroyed the world for the love of her king, unleashing the dangerous "moonlight of corrosion" which destroyed everything in its path. In the end, she was sealed by the power of vampire, dhampire, and human alike; but her king, Akabara, searches the world for the seal that will release her from her captivity. Humanity at large has since forgotten the existence of vampires, but the dhampires remember, and they will do whatever it takes to kill Akabara before he rescues his beloved queen.

* BrokenAesop: One of the morals seems to be that there is no such thing as complete evil and that everyone does something for an understandable reason, yet the reasoning behind the [[spoiler: aliens']] actions is never explored leaving them as simply evil.

* GreyAndGreyMorality: No character is completely evil and even those who seem evil have an underlying reason behind their actions. [[spoiler: except the aliens who are completely evil]]

* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The Big Moura. At least they're polite about it.

* GenreShift: From fantasy to [[spoiler: Sci-fi with the introduction of the Big Moura.]]

* SwordOfDamocles: The [[spoiler: aliens]] act as these encouraging the factions to work together although there are still plenty of gambits going on although there were partially aware of this and took some token measures to defy the trope. [[spoiler: Akabara also acted as one of these for the past 100 years letting himself be known as an all powerful enemy to both dhampirs and humans in order to unite them.]]

* [[spoiler:XanatosRoulette: All the events in the story after the great disaster except maybe the alien invasion could easily have been planned by Strauss.]]
** ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: He's actually trying to get both sides to unite in hating him, and if they kill him all the better. He acknowledges that if Stella hadn't died he may have been able to figure out a better plan]].

* [[spoiler: {{Reincarnation}}: The black swans of Stella. Kinda.

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: When they first meet, Akabara tells Letty a story about the origins of vampires. This turns out to be more important than you might expect.

* [[spoiler:XanatosRoulette / EvilPlan: All the events in the story after the great disaster except maybe the alien invasion could easily have been planned by Strauss.]]

* CakeEater: Morishima, if his interactions with Bridget are anything to go by.

* BittersweetEnding

* GenreShift: From fantasy to Sci-fi with the introduction of the Big Moura.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

TheReveal ensues. Several times. Also GenreShift and ThirtyGambitPileup.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Open your eyes, Stella!"]]